The publisher said the novella will be released in English this October with an essay about the French military leader by author and psychiatrist Armand Cabasson. The translation is being performed by Peter Hicks and Emily Barthet.

Jane Aitken, director of Gallic, said the novella will cast Napoleon in the light of an accomplished writer of fiction.

Although the piece of writing is short, it does cast an extraordinary light on Napoleon, who is someone we all think we know. We in Britain think of him as a military man, but here we see the romantic side to him, she said.